Social Worker

16 hours ago

Brisbane, Australia Queensland Health Full time

About the role
Provide Social Work clinical services as a member of a multidisciplinary team within the Caboolture and Kilcoy Hospitals Social Work department to patients/families/carers requiring social work services, particularly those with acute psychosocial trauma or multidimensional psychosocial problems, to optimise their psychosocial outcomes and to achieve maximum benefits from health care services and to support patients and families. The Social Worker will engage with patients/families/carers across the acute wards and may be required to work across all acute, subacute, and outpatient services.
About you
- Provide Social Work services to patients through collaborative participation as a multidisciplinary team member and contribute towards multidisciplinary team processes.
- Contribute to quality improvement activities, including providing advice regarding service delivery matters within the Department of Social Work and broader hospital.
- Actively engage in continuing professional education to develop clinical practice knowledge and expertise in accordance with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Code of Ethics and Professional Practice Standards.
- Ability to provide clinical social work services across the CKW Directorate, including Kilcoy as required or directed.

Health Equity
It is expected that all Metro North Health staff, including the incumbent of this role as a valuable member of the Metro North workforce, contribute to the health equity agenda and meet the intent of supporting the defined six actions that specifically meet the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS), by actively supporting the elimination of racial discrimination and institutional racism; supporting increased access to health care; influencing the social, cultural and economic determinants of health; supporting the delivery of sustainable, culturally safe and responsive health services; and recognise the importance of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities and organisations to design, deliver, monitor and review the health and support services we provide.
Benefits when working for Metro North Allied Health
- Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
- Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of 12.75% and access to generous salary packaging
- Additional entitlements for employees (casual employees excluded) may include sick leave, carer's leave, long service leave, paid parental leave, leave without pay to travel, professional development allowance and leave
- 5% annual leave loading with up to 27.5% for shift workers
- Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
- Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance

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